Editing Igloo (section)

==Nomenclature==
[[File:Inuit-Igloo P.png|thumb|[[Inuit]] building an igloo (1924)]]

In the [[Inuit languages]], the word {{lang|iu-Latn|iglu}} (plural {{lang|iu-Latn|igluit}}) can be used for a house or home built of any material.<ref name="iglu"/> The word is not restricted exclusively to snowhouses (called specifically {{lang|iu-Latn|igluvijaq}}, plural {{lang|iu-Latn|igluvijait}}), but includes traditional tents, [[sod house]]s, homes constructed of [[driftwood]] and modern buildings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic45-2-199.pdf |title=The Mackenzie Inuit Winter House |access-date=2012-07-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401150444/http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic45-2-199.pdf |archive-date=2012-04-01 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/~rmlevy/Thule/Documents/Visual%20Studies%20Final%20Copy.pdf |title=Reconstructing traditional Inuit house forms using three-dimensional interactive computer modelling |access-date=2012-07-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326084824/http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rmlevy/Thule/Documents/Visual%20Studies%20Final%20Copy.pdf |archive-date=2009-03-26 }}</ref> Outside [[Inuit culture]], however, ''igloo'' refers exclusively to shelters constructed from blocks of compacted snow, generally in the form of a dome.<ref>{{cite web |title=Definition: Igloo |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/igloo |website=Cambridge dictionary}}</ref>

Several [[Inuit languages|Inuit language]] dialects throughout the [[Northern Canada|Canadian Arctic]] ([[Sallirmiutun]] (Siglitun), [[Inuinnaqtun]], [[Natsilingmiutut]], [[Kivalliq dialect|Kivalliq]], [[North Baffin dialect|North Baffin]]) use {{lang|iu-Latn|iglu}} for all buildings, including snowhouses, and it is the term used by the [[Nunavut#Government and politics|government of Nunavut]].<ref name="iglu" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.nu.ca/en/Flag.aspx |title=About the Flag and Coat of Arms |publisher=Gov.nu.ca |date=1999-04-01 |access-date=2012-07-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307115642/http://www.gov.nu.ca/en/Flag.aspx |archive-date=2013-03-07 }}</ref><ref>''Inuinnaqtun English Dictionary''. Cambridge Bay, Nunavut: Nunavut Arctic College, 1996.</ref> An exception to this is the dialect used in the [[Igloolik]] region of [[Nunavut]]. {{lang|iu-Latn|Iglu}} is used for other buildings, while {{lang|iu-Latn|igluvijaq}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.livingdictionary.com/term/viewTerm.jsp?term=49132637880 |title=Igluvijaq |work=Asuilaak Living Dictionary |access-date=2011-06-29 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> (plural {{lang|iu-Latn|igluvijait}}, Inuktitut syllabics: {{lang|iu|ᐃᒡᓗᕕᔭᖅ}}) is specifically used for a snowhouse.